Am I seeing this pregnancy as something good, something to be welcomed? Or as something unwelcome, something inappropriate? I can’t reach a conclusion no matter how hard I think about it. I’m still in a state of shock. I’m mixed up, confused. In certain ways I feel split in two. And understandably I’m having trouble swallowing this new reality .
Yet Aomame also had to recognize that she was watching this little heat source
with a positive sense of anticipation. She simply had to see what happened to this
thing growing inside her. Obviously she was anxious and scared.
It might be more
than she could imagine. It might be a hostile foreign entity that greedily devoured her
from the inside. She could imagine all sorts of negative possibilities. But she was in
thrall to a healthy curiosity. Like a sudden flash of light in the dark, a thought
abruptly sprang to her mind.